{"id":163,"date":"2022-08-25T14:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/?p=163"},"modified":"2022-08-25T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T05:05:32","slug":"how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-high-profile-criminal-cases-involving-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/2022\/08\/25\/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-high-profile-criminal-cases-involving-children\/","title":{"rendered":"How to talk to your kids about high-profile criminal cases involving children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While discussing high-profile child protection cases is not a subject to talk about \u201cover dinner\u201d it is important for parents to be open to conversation with their children, says Dr Carmela Bastian, SWIRLS member, senior lecturer in social work at Flinders University and expert in child protection.<\/p>\n<p>Here is her advice on how to approach the conversation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t be afraid of questions children ask;<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Children are very insightful \u2026 if they\u2019ve heard about children being hurt or children that have died, they\u2019re obviously going to want to ask those questions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to what they&#8217;re asking,<\/strong>\u00a0let them talk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be responsive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Take extra care when dealing with children who might know victims involved in certain cases;<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s really important for parents and teachers to be aware of the trauma or distress they might be feeling and be really attuned to that and respond to them in that moment if they\u2019re displaying any signs of distress.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Limit young children&#8217;s exposure to media coverage<\/strong>\u00a0as much as possible; &#8220;Obviously it\u2019s really hard with social media and conversations that happen at school but it\u2019s important to monitor what children are exposed to.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While discussing high-profile child protection cases is not a subject to talk about \u201cover dinner\u201d it is important for parents to be open to conversation with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2087,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/swirls-scoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}